Putty Squad - Amiga version v1.0 A1200 AGA ------------------------------------------------ Introduction ------------ Please note: This document assumes that you have a basic understanding of how to use your Amiga, how to use CLI, copy programs onto your hard drive, or in the case of no hard drive being present, how to copy files to RAM: and work from there. This we feel is not an unreasonable expectation of people still using a machine nearly 20 years later! ;) Minimum system requirements for Putty Squad are: Commodore Amiga A1200 AGA 68020 2Meg Chipram with 1x Internal Floppy Disk Drive This title has also been tested on a 68030 based Amiga A1200 and works on that as well. There is no specifed or implied guarantee that Putty Squad will work on any systems that exceed this specification, such as 68040 and 68060 accelerated Amigas. Putty Squad was written with a base spec A1200 in mind. However, we understand that the Amiga community is adept at making light work of problems like this with initiatives such as WHDLoad, which has eradicated issues that some titles have on accelerated Amigas. What you need --------------- You will need 2 good quality and new floppy disks. Please do not think to use any old disks you have lying around. Would a professional disk duplicator use 15 year old disks that have been copied over multiple times to create game disks? We think not either! Once you have your fresh disks, you will need to use a program to write the ADF (Amiga Disk Format) files back to physical disks, there are many programs that can perform that task, we however recommend using 'DiskWiz' as this has the option of verifying the writing process so you can be sure you getting a good working copy of Putty Squad. If you don't have 'DiskWiz' on your Amiga, please goto: http://aminet.net/search?query=diskwiz There you will be taken to the link to download 'DiskWiz', it is freeware so there are no copyright problems in using it. When you open the archive, copy 'DiskWiz' into your hard drives SYS:C/ directory. If you don't have a hard drive, you're going to have to create a bootable disk with 'DiskWiz' on it. Now that you have installed 'DiskWiz', you now need to extract the Putty Squad disk images from the zip archive that you downloaded from the System 3 website, and copy them to your Amiga. You will need to remember the location where you stored them. For example, if you have them in the DH0:, 'DiskWiz' will require the path to be specified such as "DH0:Amiga_PuttySquadDisk1.ADF" in the examples below in order for it to work. So the process is simple. You've unarchived Putty Squad to your Amigas hard drive, and you now have two files: 'Amiga_PuttySquad_Disk1.ADF' 'Amiga_PuttySquad_Disk2.ADF' Getting it down to disk ----------------------- You now need to put in your first fresh floppy disk into your internal drive (DF0:) and type the following: DiskWiz Amiga_PuttySquad_Disk1.ADF DF0: VERIFY Obviously if you've copied the files into any subdirectories, you would need to put the path for 'DiskWiz' to find it, for example DiskWiz SYS:TEMP/Amiga_PuttySquad_Disk1.ADF DF0: VERIFY Please wait for all disk activity to finish and wait for 'DiskWiz' to exit before swapping disks and putting in your fresh disk 2, and then typing the following: DiskWiz Amiga_PuttySquad_Disk2.ADF DF0: VERIFY You should now have a working copy of Putty Squad on your two fresh disks, simply put disk 1 into your internal drive (DF0:), reset your Amiga, and Putty Squad will now autoboot. Using an emulator ------------------ All references to 'emulator' in this document refer to WinUAE for Windows based PC's. There are other emulators available for Windows and a host of other systems, but we can't reasonably expect to cover them all. If you get the gist of what to do in WinUAE, a lot of that advice is good for other emulators. PLEASE NOTE: There is an expectation that you have a basic understanding of how WinUAE operates, and that you already have a copy of the relevant Kickstart 3.0/3.1 ROM file that A1200 emulation requires. If you are unsure of how to get WinUAE emulating properly, please refer to the WinUAE documentation which is explicit and comprehensive on this issue, and then return back to this document to continue. Firstly make sure your installation of WinUAE is up to date, please visit: www.winuae.net to check. If you're not up to date, please goto the 'downloads' section. Many people have custom configurations when using WinUAE, we will concern ourselves only with the 'QuickStart' configurations that are present in WinUAE. These are the configurations that most closely match that of the machine they are emulating. You need to select 'A1200' and 'Basic non-expanded configuration' 'Select image file' is for selecting the disk image you wish to put into your virtual floppy drive. In this case from the archive you downloaded from the System 3 website, the name will be 'Amiga_PuttySquad_Disk1.ADF' Then select 'START', and Putty Squad will now autoboot in the WinUAE environment. It is possible to tweak the settings in WinUAE, i.e. speeding up floppy disk access and adjusting processor type, but it is possible that adjusting too many settings may cause Putty Squad to not work correctly. If you are unsure what you are doing, please consider simply just using the Quickstart configuration with speeded up floppy disk access and leaving it at that, Putty Squad was programmed to operate on a REAL Amiga and has no concept or error checking for anything that WinUAE can do that wouldn't normally be within the specifications of a base A1200 Amiga. Playing Putty Squad ------------------- For further information please see the Amiga_PuttySquad_Manual.doc file which was the draft version of the manual which was to accompany the original disks. Please remember that Putty Squad was written a long time ago when one button joysticks were the norm. Additional notes: 1). If you get a rainbow of colours and disk activity has ceased, Putty Squad has detected a disk error and has quit. Please consider that your disk might not be good enough and needs replacing. 2). Putty Squad only uses the internal drive. Disk swapping is exceedingly minimal in a game of this size, and it was felt that it would be unnecessary to support external drives in light of the fact that Putty Squad will no doubt be a candidate for conversion to hard drive using the likes of WHDLoad. Its our understanding that the use of REAL floppy disks on the Amiga is somewhat of a legacy issue now, and that hard drives are now considered the norm. 3). If you have any issues playing this game through emulation with the likes of WinUAE, please do not contact System 3. Putty Squad was written to work on a REAL Amiga, WinUAE didn't exist back in 1994. Any issues you may have, consider contacting the author of the emulator you are using. Also consider visiting some of the many fantastic Amiga related forums on the Internet who will probably have a solution to your problem. The download license for these files allow you to play and distribute Putty Squad, as long as it remains free and unaltered.